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(No Model.)

S. T. WILLIAMS.

WHEEL.

NO. 305 770. Patented Sept. 30, 1 884.

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ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT SAMUEL T. \VILLIAMS, OE RED BANK, ASSIGNOR TO THE WILLIAMS TENSION WHEEL COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEIV JERSEY.

WHEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 305,770, dated September 30, 1884:.

Application filed February 20, 1884. (No model.)'

To all whom it may concern.- meansas follows: Kdesignatesa rod, one end Be it known that I, SAMUEL T. \VILLIAMS, of which bears in a recess in the portion d of a citizen of the United States, residing atRed the hub-half O, and the other end projects Bank, in the county of Monmouth and State of through a slot in the hub d of the other half,

5 New Jersey, have invented certain new and and is provided with a thumb-piece, Z. m is useful Improvements in Wheels, of which the a pawl fixed to the exterior of the portion d of following is a full, clear, and exact descriphalf 0, and adapted to engage witha series of tion. teeth, a, cut on the rod K. Aspool, 0, is fixed This invention relates to that class of wheels to the rod K at its center, or equidistant from 10 in which the spokes are of wire or other suitthe hub-halves, and has attached to it a bindable strips of flexible material, and are adapted ing wire or band, 1), which is first passed to have their tension varied as circumstances around the portion of the spokes contained may require. between the hub-halves, and its ends then The invention consists in novel means for made fast to the spool by being passed through I 5 varying the tension of the spokes, and so ina hole in it from opposite sides.

creasing ordilninishing the stiffness or rigidity It is obvious that rotating the rod revolves of the wheel, substantially as hereinafter parthe spool and draws the binder onto it, hence ticularly set forth and claimed. contracting the diameter of such binder, and

In the accompanying drawings, in the two consequently drawing the spoke-loops toward 2o figures of which similar letters of referenceina common center within the hub against the dicate like parts, Figure 1 is a perspective extending influence of the rims d d. The view of my wheel with the rim removed, and pawl m, engaging the teeth a on the rod K, Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of the rim, holds the given tension on the spokes. The

the hub being in elevation. release of the pawl and the opposite rotation y A is the rim, having the felly A integral of the shaft will free the spokes of tension.

therewith by preference, and made substanhat I claim as my invention, and desire to tially as in the parent invention shown in my application, Serial No. 83,695, filed February The combination, with the rim, the loop- 1, 1883. like wire spokes, the hub composed of halves 3O 13 B are spokes, consisting of loops of wire 0 0, through which the spokes are looped,

or other strips of flexible material attached to fixed tothe shaft or axle, the binderp, emthe rim, after having been first passed through bracing the looped ends of the spokes between the wheel-likehalves O C of the wheel-hub. the hub-halves, and means to contract and eX- This hub is composed of the halves O 0, each pand said binder to vary the tension on the having a huh, (I, fixed to the axle D, a rim, (1, spokes, substantially as shown and described. and spokes a, connecting said hubs and rims. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my This hub differs from that shown in the rehand this 9th day of February, A. D. 1884. ferred-to application in that both its halves V Y are fixed to the axle or shaft D and are not ad- SAND LL TILLIAMS secure by Letters Patent, is

0 justable on or movable toward and from each XVitnesses:

other by it. ARTHUR O. WEBB,

The tension of the spokes is regulated by ERNEST G. TEBB. 

